This is a mesmerising, chilling close-up portrayal of Stalin from Milovan Djilas, a Communist insider
- with an introduction
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Jo Langer was an idealistic teenager in 1940s Hungary when she began a correspondence course in Marxism. Her tutor was Oskar Langer, a committed young communist from the former Czechoslovakia. They eventually met & married, & Jo left her bourgeois upbringing behind to become part of the new Socialist future in Bratislavia. But when Oskar, a respected economist & party-member, was arrested & imprisoned, Jo was immediately stripped of her home & her job. She spent the next ten years eking out a life for herself & her two daughters in near-impossible conditions. Convictions is Jo`s compelling memoir of that time, told without sensationalism, but with candour & wit. It is the story of an immensely courageous, resourceful young woman, a portrait of a marriage, & a tale of survival in a totalitarian state. At its heart it is a demand for people to come before politics, & a protest against the terrible human consequences of unquestioning convictions & blind faith. ...

The Cook 30cm (12) globe will complement & enhance any home, office or school environment. This physical globe shows environmental mapping with prevailing sea & air currents. When illuminated, the mapping changes to display political colours. It is mounted on an antique brass-plated, half-meridian with quality, real wood base. ...

Presents 15 separate maps of the islands & atolls at various scales from 1:25, 000 to 1:100, 000. Elevation tinting shows the general relief where appropriate & some peak heights are marked. Roads tracks & rivers are marked with symbols indicating beaches, caves, airstrips, beaches, diving locations, petrol stations, hospitals, hotels, sites of interest, notable buildings. Reefs & swamp areas are also marked. Each map has latitude & longitude margin ticks. There is a small general map of the Cook Islands & a simple street plan of Avarua town showing notable buldings, restaurants, hotels, post offices etc. ...

With sections on vegetables, spices, herbs, berries, fruit, meat, fish, seafood, eggs & seasonal baking, this is the ultimate guide to Scandinavian cooking. It

Includes:: 100 essential ingredients & 300recipes selected by Camilla Plum, an authority on the distinctive produce of Scandinavia, & book celebrates the varied cooking methods used to make the most of Nordic ingredients, from salting & jamming to eating fresh from the wild. From crayfish to lingonberries, by way of venison & rye bread, the information & recipes in this book give you a fascinating insight into the Scandinavian kitchen & offers a truly fascinating insight into the food culture & philosophy of Northern Europe.

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This book will be your inspiration to be adventurous, to extend your cooking repertoire & to be more ecologically aware. Based on the popular TV series on BBC Food, Cooked, this unique compilation of places, spaces & flavours combines chef Justin Bonello's three favourite things
- Southern Africa, food & friends. Bonello is passionate about ensuring that Africa's diverse food cultures are recorded & celebrated so that future generations will be able to savour the culinary pleasures we enjoy today. His love affair with cooking & wide-open spaces began with weekends & school holidays spent in the great outdoors either on the Breede River or on the Wild Coast. He learnt to embrace the land & all that it has to offer without taking from it anything that nature can't replenish. Bonello believes that the beauty of travel & cooking can be found in searching for fresh produce, making new friends & discovering foods you didn't even know existed. Once you've learned the basics & started growing your own produce, there's no reason not to produce awesome meals
- all it takes is a little courage & a pinch of creativity.

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Extraordinary stories of transformation in a quest to uncover the fundamentals of cooking
- from writer & cooking star Michael
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Bake cookies from scratch inside this interactive recipe book
- sift the flour, whisk the sugar, crack the egg, pour the chocolate
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This is a new edition of a classic title. When you browse the titles in your local bookshop, you can almost hear the shelves groaning under the weight of a plethora of cookery titles. We seem to love cookery books & cooking for ourselves, but how often have you thought about putting your culinary skills towards making dinner for some rather different guests? Birds are the life & soul of any garden
- whatever its size or location
- & one thing is guaranteed: if food is on offer, the birds will come. Cooking For Birds brings you some of the most popular & successful bird food recipes there are, combined with a range of useful cookery tips & helpful hints on what to feed & when. Whether it's a treat for the tits, a nibble for the Nuthatch or a bellyful for the Blackbird, there is plenty here to entice a variety of visitors to your bird-table or bird feeders.

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For John Baxter
- acclaimed film critic & food lover
- that moment came when he fell in love with a French woman & impulsively

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